These 3D-printed skulls are made with PLA (Polylactic acid) filament. 3D printing is making the dirty business of mounting an animal’s skull over the mantle a bit less gory. Though the space is mostly ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A 9-year-old dog has a new skull and a ...

Surgeons and technicians based at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia have produced a 3D-printed skull. But this isn't just a mono-textured model. Every layer — from the skin to the ...

When a Dutch woman with a rare condition needed a new skull, surgeons 3D-printed one for her and put it on her brain like a cap. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and silly sides of ...

A 22-year-old woman has had the whole top of her skull replaced with a customized 3D-printed implant. The patient had been suffering from severe symptoms as a result of a condition that causes a ...

Three months ago, surgeons in Holland implanted a transparent plastic skull in a woman whose skull has never stopped growing. Incredibly, the rare bone disease that was wrecking her vision and ...

When Danielle Dymek goes to the barn to feed her horses, her 10-year-old Dachshund Patches usually comes along for the ride. A senior dog, Patches needs some help getting around. For the most part, ...

WOODLAND PARK, Colo. — A piece of history has found itself in the present thanks to the help of some modern technology, the skull of a rare and new genus of Tyrannosaur has been 3D printed into ...

ALLENWOOD, Pa. — Every dog owner thinks their pup is special. Patches the 9-year-old dachshund really is. Four years ago, her owner Danielle Dymeck noticed a small bump on top of Patches' head. She ...

When Dr. Michelle Oblak, a veterinary surgical oncologist at the University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College (OVC), first met Patches, the dachshund was suffering from a cancerous skull tumor so ...

Some babies are born with abnormalities and missing parts of their bodies, but having a missing part of their skulls is a massive threat to their life, and may lead to an unfortunate loss for their ...

Only a decade ago, the idea of printing parts of the human body through 3D printing was still in the realm of science fiction, according to Dr. Gaurav Gupta, assistant professor of neurosurgery at ...